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Poetry and literature was always appreciated both in central palace and in country side from the establishment to the decay period of the Ottoman Empire. The basis of this prevalant dignity was; mainly sovereignty and then viziers, governors, sanjak beys, sheikhul islams, kazaskers etc. To show their gratefulness, poets presented their works to their tutelars by various means. Furthermore they mentioned some of their requests in these works. In general, apart from poets requesting a supporter (tutelar) and hand (kidness, gift, compliments etc), there had also been poets expressing their wishes frankly. In this studyof us called "Assessments on Protection of Poets in Divan Poetry-II" is based on poets depicted wishes from their tutelars.